Ode to the Living Tree

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Ode to the Living Tree - Wikipedia

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Ode to the Living Tree

Studio album by

Andrew Cyrille

Released

1995

Recorded

December 18 and 19, 1994

Studio

XIPPI Studio, Dakar, Senegal

Genre

Jazz

Label

Venus Records
TKCV-790982

Producer

Tetsuo Hara

Andrew Cyrille chronology

X Man
(1994)

Ode to the Living Tree
(1995)

Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu
(1997)

Ode to the Living Tree is an album by drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was recorded in December 1994 at XIPPI Studio in Dakar, Senegal, and was released by Venus Records in 1995, as well as by Evidence Music in 1997. On the album, Cyrille is joined by saxophonists Oliver Lake and David Murray, pianist Adegoke Steve Colson, bassist Fred Hopkins, and percussionist Mor Thiam. According to Cyrille, it was the first jazz album recorded in Senegal.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B−^[2]

In a review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson wrote: "the drummer leads an inspired, cohesive quintet... the performances are generally quite melodic; in fact, Ode is essentially an album of inside/outside post-bop... rather than ultra-radical, ultra-dissonant free jazz... Although not as radical as some of Cyrille's other work, Ode to the Living Tree is an excellent CD that he should be proud of."^[1]

Willard Jenkins, writing for Jazz Times, called Cyrille "a vital and very much underrated percussionist and bandleader" who "always brings a sense of the Motherland to his music, whether exploring free landscapes, or structured outings like most on this date... There is a feeling of Trane meets Sun Ra at the corner of Murray & Lake on this date as the spirits of those two grand masters are in the air."^[3]

Track listing

"Coast to Coast" (Cyrille) – 5:45
"A Love Supreme - Acknowledgement and Resolution" (John Coltrane) – 19:43
"Mr. P. C." (John Coltrane) – 4:14
"Ode to the Living Tree" (Cyrille) – 8:52
"Dakar Darkness" (Murray) – 5:38
"So That Life Can Endure..., P.S. With Love" (Cyrille) – 9:49
"Midnight Samba" (Colson) – 9:53
"Water, Water, Water" (Cyrille) – 3:11

Personnel

Andrew Cyrille – drums, percussion
Oliver Lake – alto xaxophone
David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Adegoke Steve Colson – electric piano
Fred Hopkins – bass
Mor Thiam – African drums (tracks 1 and 8)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Henderson, Alex. "Andrew Cyrille Trio: Ode to the Living Tree". AllMusic. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
^ Hull, Tom. "Jazz (1960–70s)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
^ Jenkins, Willard (April 25, 2019). "Andrew Cyrille Trio: Ode to the Living Tree". Jazz Times. Retrieved February 4, 2022.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	What About? (1969) Celebration (1975) The Loop (1978) Metamusicians' Stomp (1978) Nuba (with Jeanne Lee and Jimmy Lyons, 1979) Special People (1980) The Navigator (1982) My Friend Louis (1991) X Man (1993) Ode to the Living Tree (1994) Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu (1995) Duo Palindrome 2002 (with Anthony Braxton, 2002) Low Blue Flame (2005) Route de Frères (2005) The Declaration of Musical Independence (2014) Proximity (with Bill McHenry, 2014) Lebroba (2017) The News (2019) 2 Blues for Cecil (with William Parker and Enrico Rava, 2021) Music Delivery/Percussion (2022)
Live albums	Dialogue of the Drums (with Milford Graves, 1974) Junction (1976) Double Clutch (with Richard Teitelbaum, 1981) Something in Return (with Jimmy Lyons, 1981) Burnt Offering (with Jimmy Lyons, 1982) Andrew Cyrille Meets Brötzmann in Berlin (with Peter Brötzmann, 1982) Irène Schweizer & Andrew Cyrille (with Irène Schweizer, 1988) Galaxies (with Vladimir Tarasov, 1990) Opus de Life (with Paul Dunmall and Henry Grimes, 2008) Evocation (with Elliott Sharp and Richard Teitelbaum, 2011)
Related articles	Trio 3 Air

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